Debra Jackson and colleagues published a literature review on personal resilience as a survival strategy for nurses.3 It proposed five self-development strategies: Building nurturing professional relationships and networks, staying positive, developing emotional insight, achieving life balance and spirituality, and becoming more reflective.
The Indian Institutes of Management were established in response to the growing need that was felt for nurturing professional managers who could efficiently manage India's growing industries.
There is also a need to nurture professional academic communities in this area like the Diana International Project to advance the field.
Based on a broad review of the literature, the article argues that, to combat wide-scale plagiarism, academic institutions need to cultivate a consensus among faculty and students about the definition and types of plagiarism, the appropriate penalties, and the paramount professional and economic need to nurture professional ethics.
Coughlin provides recommendations for combatting widespread plagiarism based on the literature which include the need to cultivate a consensus among faculty and students about the definition and types of plagiarism, the appropriate penalties, and the overarching need to nurture professional ethics.
Cultivate and nurture professional relationships.
Diasporans can nurture professional growth in young professionals and narrow the existing "skills gap" by exposing them to new careers and fields of study, expanding their horizons to wider opportunities in their profession.
To improve professionalism among staff, some respondents felt that senior faculty and providers should endeavor to mentor and nurture professional conduct among junior staff.
This leads to a third lesson: it may be time well spent, depending on local conditions, to nurture professional networks, and invest the time to facilitate their contributions to care.
The survey results showed that physicians do not recognize the importance of values such as "collegial relationships" or "public service," and these findings reflect a lack of collective medical professionalism, i.e., an inability and unwillingness to exercise self-governance, to nurture professional attitudes among colleagues, and to establish a moral culture as a professional group.
